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Mozilla wants to crowdsource thousands of hours of voice recordings for an open source voice recognition engine:
The Mozilla Foundation launched "Common Voice," which is a crowdsourced initiative to build an open source data set for voice recognition applications.
Many technology companies believe that voice control will be embedded into most devices in the future. This is why Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Baidu, and others are all trying to put their own voice-controlled artificial intelligence assistants into as many devices as they can and as fast as they can, in order to gain market share before the competition.
The problem with this, according to Mozilla, is that voice controlled technologies could end up being dominated by proprietary technology and data sets, which aren't made available to startups and academics. As some large companies already benefit from billion-dollar revenues, it could later become too difficult for startups to catch up with the big players. Though[sic] Common Voice, Mozilla aims to democratize voice recognition technology.
You could use this to build (the easy part of) a personal assistant that either does not use the cloud, or does so on your terms.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by moondrake on Thursday July 20 2017, @01:38PM (4 children)
Why? They use GA to analyze user data on that page (which is useful for running a site) and worked out a deal with google that the data is only for their own (i.e. not 3rd party use). Of course, maybe google as a service provider is breaking that agreement.
If you do not like GA because it does track you (for mozilla's own use), you can turn it off by using DNT, which you have done already because if the only page you browse to in your life that is using GA is the firefox addon page, you have been enjoying a very miserable online experience anyway.
If you are really that paranoid about thinks like GA and tracking, you should not be using firefox anyway.
This thread could be just OT, but I think you are all just trolling.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @07:03AM
Because DNT increases your fingerprintability.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @08:20AM (2 children)
Why? Because you shouldn't rely on Google for anything, given its reputation for being vehemently anti-privacy. If Firefox needs user data, it should build its own solution and have an option to disable it without relying on DNT.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @07:47AM (1 child)
I am sure you are going to volunteer for that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @08:39AM
We already have plenty of people who have volunteered. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_web_analytics_software [wikipedia.org]
Mozilla is taking a user hostile position here. They apparently value their convenience over user privacy.